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Bulgarian pop star Dara was met by a crowd of fans in Sofia airport on Sunday, celebrating her historic Eurovision win.The 27-year-old’s tune Bangaranga won Bulgaria its first ever title in the song contest.”Thank you for being here,” she told fans as she arrived in the Bulgarian capital, Sofia, before adding “I cannot wait to dip my toes in this atmosphere”.

Mitchell Starc and Hemang Badani NEW DELHI: Delhi Capitals kept their slim IPL 2026 playoff hopes alive with a five-wicket win over Rajasthan Royals on Sunday, but even after the victory, the focus remained on a season-long issue that has repeatedly disrupted their campaign — player availability.The win took DC to 12 points, level with Chennai Super Kings and RR, though they remained seventh due to net run rate. With one game left against Kolkata Knight Riders — the final league fixture of the season — DC’s fate may still be decided before they even take the field.After the match…

JEE Advanced 2026 response sheet and answer key The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Roorkee conducted the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) Advanced 2026 on May 17 and is now set to release the candidate response sheets and answer keys as per the official schedule available on the examination website, which is, jeeadv.ac.in.According to the official timeline, the JEE Advanced 2026 response sheets will be released on May 21 at 5 pm. The provisional answer key will be published on May 25 at 10 am. Candidates will also be allowed to raise objections or submit feedback against the provisional answer key…

Bitcoin price has been pinned between $77,899 and $80,339 for weeks. Retail sees a dead chart. But historically, this kind of BTC consolidation is exactly when altcoin start moving and starts its season. The mechanism is called crypto capital rotation. The total crypto market is one pool of money. When Bitcoin surges, everyone piles in first. When it stalls, that same capital starts hunting better returns down the risk curve, Ethereum first, then mid-caps, then smaller altcoins. The signal that rotation is starting is Bitcoin Dominance. When it peaks and starts falling while overall market cap holds or grows, money…

Societe Generale’s team notes that the European Central Bank’s (ECB Economic Bulletin stresses that a Middle East-driven Oil shock would hit inflation more than activity, but confidence effects could weigh on 2027 growth. They add that if business surveys show only small activity moves but renewed price pressures, this would largely cement expectations for an ECB rate hike in June unless geopolitical tensions ease sharply.Oil, confidence and rate expectations”The ECB also published its Economic Bulletin and one (out of several as always) interesting piece was on “how the war in the Middle East could affect household savings and the economy”.””While…

Redefining The Standard Let’s get one thing straight: engagement in digital learning is not the enemy. Disengagement is. And the reason so many institutions are fighting losing battles against distracted learners, sky-high dropout rates, and forgettable courses isn’t because they focused too much on true eLearning engagement, it’s because they were working from the wrong definition of it. For too long, “engaging” in eLearning has meant visually busy. It has meant auto-playing videos, click-next interactions, and gamification layers slapped on to content that was never designed to hold attention in the first place. That’s not true eLearning engagement. That’s decoration.…

Hosted by Shania Twain, the 2026 ACM Awards were filled with plenty of moments country music lovers will be talking about Shania Twain, Ella Langley, Lauren AlainaCredit: David Becker/Getty; Kevin Mazur/Getty; David Becker/GettyThe 2026 ACM Awards took place at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, bringing together country's finest.Hosted by Shania Twain, the award show delivered on emotional moments, fun surprises and plenty of performances. As host, Twain kicked things off on the red carpet as she had tongues wagging by rocking auburn locs. Meanwhile, Lainey Wilson was clearly in newlywed bliss as she brought her husband of…

The afternoon of the day he was killed in 1980, John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, sat for a radio interview at their apartment in the Dakota in New York. The ostensible subject was their new album, Double Fantasy, but the conversation was expansive. It included reflections on how they met, their artistic temperaments, and their feelings about their lives together and parenthood. The audio recording forms the spine of “John Lennon: The Last Interview,” a documentary by Steven Soderbergh selected for Cannes’s Special Screenings section. Soderbergh told Deadline that he had to abridge the interview for running-time purposes…

Even great economists can make poor or incomplete arguments. George Stigler, a titan of the Chicago school alongside luminaries like Milton Friedman, Gary Becker, and half a dozen other Nobel Laureates, wrote an essay about what he saw as a surprising inconsistency in Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. His article, “Smith’s Travels on the Ship of State,” makes the case that “The Wealth of Nations is a stupendous palace erected upon the granite of self-interest.” This seems uncontroversial, given Smith’s famous description of how the market harnesses self-interest to benefit society. People are “led by an invisible hand” to benefit…

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